Speevy said:
I'm just saying you can't compare sales of handheld games to sales of console games.
Just because a casual-centric game like Nintendogs outsold LCS, doesn't mean the same will hold true.
And moreover, the combination of Smash, Mario, and Metroid this holiday season includes not one of these Wii Sports/Nintendogs-like titles.
They're all games that sell to Nintendo fans.
:lol Dude, EVERYTHING outsold GTA: LCS. Final Fantasy III, Yoshi's Island DS, Tetris DS, NSMB, Animal Crossing: WW, etc.
I think you're just foolishly looking at this and saying "Well, GTA's a console game, not a portable game. Pokemon sells a ****load more on certain systems too." It's way more than just that.
Nintendo's on a high right now. Everything they do gets instant praise from the media, everything they make sells and sells now. This is a completely different Nintendo now and there's also a different Sony and MS. The market has changed so that a Mario game now has sold over nine million worldwide. The market has changed so that each GTA that comes out sells worse than the last. We're seeing the results of increased sales, hype, and demand for all things Animal Crossing, Mario-related, as well as successful "non-games" as I'm sure you'd like to call it.
SSBM, Mario Sunshine, and Metroid Prime appealed to some of the biggest die-hard Nintendo fans last generation. But now that the userbase and mindshare is with Nintendo, it would not be surprising for each of these games to sell better than their predecessors did last generation.
Go ahead and look at sales of something like Gundam Musou. That's a game you'd think would sell extremely well... if the userbase was there. Ratchet and Clank was a couple million seller last generation. How much do you think the upcoming PS3 game will sell? It won't be anywhere close to those numbers.